This is so bad it's actually slightly embarassing. I hope everyone who made it realised it was this bad before they got their hopes up. Bafflingly awful.
I think she puts it on a bit too though, you're right
You get this with Welsh actors sometimes. They (rather smugly) think they have only a faint undetectable Welsh accent - which is of course blatantly obvious to an English person!
They ham up their Welsh accent so that it's totally OTT. Elen does this imo.
Playing devil's advocate a little, you could say putting a new show on ITV2 is a sign of little faith. ITV2 has far lower viewers than ITV1 which most likely means less advertising revenue. I saw a bit of Trinity last night, it was repeated on ITV2, it looks a bit cheesy and Charles Dance must be desperate for work to be in this! He started his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company. "I'm a trained Shakespearian actor, you know, I don't do shows like this unless the cheque is worth it!"
Regarding high profile actors doing dodgy work, I saw the actor who used to play a bent cop on The Bill and he also appeared in Eastenders doing a car insurance advert. From two big tv soaps to a car advert. He needs a new agent!
It's a bad time for ITV to be making new tv shows. I read this over on the Sun website:
If Trinity doesn't get decent rating it won't get a second series (assuming it's planned as a multi-series show).
Excellent. A very good reason to capture the raw MPEG2 transport stream and save the frame captures at the highest possible resolution for later viewing. CC's a real trooper isn't he.